Film and TV

Backbeat is a snapshot of Hamburg and John Lennon’s (Ian Hart) (and the Beatles) relationship with Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff).

The film is about a small group of Vatican investigators researching an old church which once may have been the site of a religious miracle.

Concrete Utopia (2023) When a massive earthquake hits Seoul and it’s surrounding area (possibly even the world, as it’s never explained) in the middle of a freezing winter, just one concrete apartment building is left standing amongst the rubble. The only shelter left for any survivors, the apartment block residents are suddenly inundated with people […]

La Cha Cha (2021)While on a road trip to scatter his Grandfather’s ashes, Solti Buttering (Liam Hourican) inadvertently finds ‘La Cha Cha’; a weird and wonderful holiday park with a community of retired people living “off the grid” and enjoying life to the full.La Cha Cha owner Libby Rees (Ruby Ashbourne Serkis) and her brother […]

4K UHD: Dark Water (2002)If you think you’ve got problems just because you have a dripping tap in the bathroom or kitchen, then watching Dark Water will certainly make you re-evaluate that thought process.While in the middle of a messy divorce from her husband, Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) finally gets custody of their young daughter […]

4K UHD: Green Room (2015)Struggling punk band Ain’t Rights are in the Pacific Northwest for a gig, but when it’s cancelled, Pat, Sam, Reece and Tiger must find another way of making the money that they desperately need. When an opportunity for a show in the sticks arises, they can’t say no…but they really should […]

Blu-ray: V/H/S 85 (2023)After recently reviewing (and enjoying) 2021’s V/H/S 94, I was very much looking forward to watching the latest instalment in the series; V/H/S 85.Much like its predecessor, this is another horror anthology that throws all sorts of weird and wonderful stories at you in fairly quick succession. This time it’s presented in […]

We’ve all had that movie discovery at a young age that changed everything and influenced who we would become in later life. For 12 year old Sav Rodgers it was stumbling upon the VHS of 1997 rom-com Chasing Amy. At a time when he was contending with his queer identity, the film was a life […]

4K UHD: Possessor (2020)The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree is the best way to describe Brandon Cronenberg’s work, a modern take of life today, body horror, cerebral, thought provoking and based in the human condition. In Possessor we follow the story of Tasya Vos (the amazing Andrea Riseborough) who’s an assassin in an […]

Blu-ray: Fear City (1984)I’m always filled with wonder at the amount of films that were made in the 80s. I mean by now you’d think we at 60MW Towers would have seen them all. Twice. But no.How on earth I have never seen Abel Ferarra’s 1984 Fear City is beyond me, but thankfully 101 Films […]